There needs to be an early signing period and the NCAA has continued not to implement one. They continue to let the prostitution of 17-19 year old high school football players make them and other sports entities like ESPN millions and millions of dollars and it's just flat out wrong. Situations like ours and many others schools out there happen during this time of the year simply because of no early signing period.
For our school, Mix and Jones would have been locked up months ago to the school we know they want to be at, which is MSU. Instead, the end of recruiting season comes around and bigger, richer schools start hanging around and try to poach the talent that we've worked so hard to get to our university. So the big and rich will continue to get bigger and richer because they can offer publicity and individual recognition that schools like ours can't possibly offer compared to the likes of Bama, Florida, and others.
It also keeps about half of the NCAA rules committee employed. I would hazard to guess at least half to 2/3 of all violations reported or investigated happen in the last month or two of recruiting season. Now if half of the eligible athletes were locked up to their school, there would be no need for these NCAA rules committee employees to even have a job. So they let 17-19 year old recruits, barely old enough to make important life decisions on their own, be treated like royalty for two months and allow schools to throw almost whatever they want to at a kid just to get them to campus.
It's embarrassing and the NCAA should be ashamed that they have allowed this to go on for as long as it has. Recruiting should not play this big a part in college football. It should be about the games played on the field, not the games played in back rooms and bars and campuses that mess with the minds of very impressionable teenagers. It hurts schools like us and it only empowers the bigger schools more. The NCAA and the entities its connected with have turned this part of college football into a nightmare. Instead of helping the game of football, they only hurt it by making it more high stakes, ruthless, and by teaching kids that if they are good enough, they too can be treated like royalty. This takes away from the team concept and the overall goal of college in general and it disgusts me.
Had to get this off my chest. May the meltdown continue.
For our school, Mix and Jones would have been locked up months ago to the school we know they want to be at, which is MSU. Instead, the end of recruiting season comes around and bigger, richer schools start hanging around and try to poach the talent that we've worked so hard to get to our university. So the big and rich will continue to get bigger and richer because they can offer publicity and individual recognition that schools like ours can't possibly offer compared to the likes of Bama, Florida, and others.
It also keeps about half of the NCAA rules committee employed. I would hazard to guess at least half to 2/3 of all violations reported or investigated happen in the last month or two of recruiting season. Now if half of the eligible athletes were locked up to their school, there would be no need for these NCAA rules committee employees to even have a job. So they let 17-19 year old recruits, barely old enough to make important life decisions on their own, be treated like royalty for two months and allow schools to throw almost whatever they want to at a kid just to get them to campus.
It's embarrassing and the NCAA should be ashamed that they have allowed this to go on for as long as it has. Recruiting should not play this big a part in college football. It should be about the games played on the field, not the games played in back rooms and bars and campuses that mess with the minds of very impressionable teenagers. It hurts schools like us and it only empowers the bigger schools more. The NCAA and the entities its connected with have turned this part of college football into a nightmare. Instead of helping the game of football, they only hurt it by making it more high stakes, ruthless, and by teaching kids that if they are good enough, they too can be treated like royalty. This takes away from the team concept and the overall goal of college in general and it disgusts me.
Had to get this off my chest. May the meltdown continue.